Ai For Helping Professions: Safety & Ethics
Published 4/2026
Created by Chris Worfolk, Holbeck College
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: All Levels | Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Duration: 70 Lectures ( 1h 50m ) | Size: 1.54 GB
✓ Use AI tools effectively for professional tasks including report writing, research, documentation, and summarising content
✓ Apply a clear ethical framework to AI use, including data privacy decisions, competence boundaries, and transparency with clients
✓ Choose the right AI tool for each task, including setting up and using a local LLM for sensitive content
✓ Identify and manage key AI risks including hallucinations, bias, echo chambers, and over-reliance
✓ Craft effective prompts that produce reliable, professionally appropriate AI output
✓ Recognise and respond appropriately when clients are using AI in ways that may be clinically significant
✓ Evaluate new AI tools critically and make informed decisions about adopting them in professional practice
Requirements
● No prior knowledge of AI is required - we start from the very basics
● To follow the local LLM lessons, a computer with at least 16GB of RAM is recommended, but not essential for the course
Description
AI is changing how helping professionals work. This course makes sure you're ready.
Whether you're a therapist, coach, healthcare professional, social worker, teacher, or HR professional, this course gives you practical, ethical guidance grounded in the realities of your work.
Written and taught by a chartered psychologist and software engineer, it gives you everything you need to use AI confidently, safely, and ethically in your professional practice. We start from the very basics, so you don't need any prior knowledge of AI to get started.
You will learn
• How to use AI for research, formulation, report writing, note-taking, and summarising documents
• How to craft effective prompts to get useful, reliable output
• How to navigate ethical issues such as competence, privacy, hallucinations, bias and deskilling
• How to run AI locally so client data never leaves your computer
We also cover territory that most AI courses ignore entirely: what to do when your clients are using AI. Whether a client arrives with a ChatGPT formulation, uses AI for reassurance between sessions, or has developed an unhealthy relationship with an AI companion, you will know how to respond.
By the end of the course, you will be able to use AI as a skilled professional assistant while keeping your clinical judgement, your ethics, and your clients' wellbeing at the centre of your practice.
Who this course is for
■ Counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, coaches, social workers, and teachers
■ Mindfulness teachers, occupational therapists, and other allied health professionals
■ Any helping professional who handles sensitive client data and wants to use AI responsibly
■ HR professionals, managers, and supervisors supporting staff who work with vulnerable people
■ Complete beginners with no prior knowledge of AI - we start from scratch
■ Those already using AI who want to ensure they are doing so safely and ethically
Ai For Helping Professions: Safety & Ethics
